Connectivity to Improve Patient Safety
Making Medical Device “Plug-and-Play” Interoperability a Reality
January / February 2010
For the past 5 years the Medical Device “Plug-and-Play” (MD PnP) Interoperability Program has been leading the evaluation and adoption of open standards and technology for medical device interoperability to support clinical innovation and improve patient safety.
The adoption of open standards for medical device interoperability will support:
* Complete, accurate electronic medical record systems (EMRS)
* Reduction of errors caused by manually entered data
* Facilitation of disaster preparedness: real-time inventory of hospital equipment in use and
   in national stockpiles
* Rapid deployment of devices in makeshift emergency care settings
* Medical device safety interlocks to produce error-resistant systems
* Clinical decision support systems and smart clinical alarms (with context-awareness)
* Support of remote healthcare delivery
* Automated system readiness assessment (prior to starting invasive clinical procedures)
* Reduction of cost of devices and device integration, and reduction of accelerating EMR-adoption costs
* Closed-loop control of therapeutic devices and safety interlocks (e.g. ventilation, medication and fluid delivery)
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Meaningful Use, Certification Criteria, and Standards,
And HHS Certification Process
himss.org
An archive of articles on meaningful use

IHE.net
IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. IHE promotes the coordinated use of established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical need in support of optimal patient care.

CMIO.net
CMIO  focuses on empowering, educating and supporting
medical and healthcare executive leadership to advance, integrate
and leverage clinical information systems to bring evidence-based
medicine to the point of care

The Health Story Project
Health Story is an alliance of healthcare vendors, providers and associations that pooled resources over the previous three years in a rapid-development initiative to produce data standards for the flow of information between common types of healthcare documents and electronic health records.

HIMSS
HIMSS is a cause-based, not-for-profit organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.

UnitedHealth tries to catch the telemedicine wave
July 1, 2010
UnitedHealth is partnering with Cisco Technologies to develop Connected Care, the first national telemedicine network. Using homemade software and Cisco video conferencing equipment, the company, the nation's largest private insurer, hopes to use its size and scale to sell doctor groups and employers its telemedicine technology and services.
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Continua Health Alliance
Continua Health Alliance is a non-profit, open industry coalition of the finest healthcare and technology companies joining together in collaboration to improve the quality of personal healthcare,  with more than 200 member companies around the world

CA Launches Largest "Telehealth" Network
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh
Chopra at the UC Davis Cancer Center to announce the launch of the
country's largest "telehealth" system, which organizers say will one day
connect patients to hundreds of hospitals and clinics statewide using
broadband technology.